Agnosticism, to my mind, is a position which takes strength.

I'm terribly tempted to relax and say, "Aww, F-- it, there is no god!" And it would be emotionally satisfying (and IS emotionally satisfying when I slip into that position), to take a position of rest, so to speak, by making what amounts to a flat, stable position, where I would no longer have to question.

But when I am able to get myself together and look at what I really know, I realize that the intellectually honest position is that "I don't know, and I don't think there even is a way to know, but I'll take a respectful look at any new arguments or facts that come down the pike" (if any new ones ever do). That's, to my mind at least, a hard position to maintain. But I try to do that.

Allowing my mind to take the easy way out, to deny what seems false but for which I do not and I think cannot have evidence, is the weak answer.

Dave Oesterreich